Re: [Sheflug] Re: System bus speeds...

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:09, Chris J wrote:
> It's not completely useful. Might give a vauge indicator but, like other
> distributions, a Redhat kernel is not a stock linux kernel - Redhat add
> their own stuff or extra patches. I don't like vendor-kernels as if there is
> breakage I can't put it down to the kernel or the value-added patches.

IIRC, there were threads on Slashdot to this effect, culminating in
2.4.15 which trashed ext2/3 filesystems on shutdown :)

2.4.16 and onward have been OK, though, so any recent distro (Debian
included, if you use a 2.4 kernel with Debian 3.0) will be OK because
they either have 2.2 kernels or, usually, 2.4.18.

As for vendor supplied kernels? eeeurh! Can't stand 'em! Too bloaty and
flaky. However, the problem discussed in this thread applies/applied to
vanilla kernels also.

-- 
Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk


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